All posts for the month July, 2016

We had a great trip with my parents! The Farm was wonderful to visit, as always, and the weather was so pleasant for exploring nature and shops and fun. This was our second trip up there and I feel like it was even better than our first. We’re already planning the next one!

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"We've also evolved the ability to simply "pay it forward": I help you, somebody else will help me. I remember hearing a parable when I was younger, about a father who lifts his young son onto his back to carry him across a flooding river. "When I am older," said the boy to his father, "I will carry you across this river as you now do for me." "No, you won't," said the father stoically. "When you are older you will have your own concerns. All I expect is that one day you will carry your own son across this river as I no do for you." Cultivating this attitude is an important part of Humanism--to realize that life without God can be much more than a series of strict tit-for-tat transactions where you pay me and I pay you back. Learning to pay it forward can add a tremendous sense of meaning and dignity to our lives. Simply put, it feels good to give to others, whether we get back or not."— Greg Epstein

While these archives date back to 2009, this is a compilation of all my previously abandoned blogs. Roughly from June 2009 through July 2011 I wrote in Strings to Things, and from December 2011 through November 2012 I posted to Homestead in the Suburbs. After growing tired of and no longer identifying with these blogs I started yet another ('cause I'm really good at doing that), but this time I've kept the name broad, and also imported all the old posts for posterity.